Δροσιά · district
Drosia scores 46 out of 100 for violent crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 1,967 people at 618 people per km².
The score is absolute, not a ranking: 50 is the offence rate for Greece as a whole, 100 the safest end of the scale and 0 the least safe, and every doubling of the rate costs the same number of points wherever you are. Regional units are scored from Eurostat's police-recorded offence rates per 100,000 inhabitants. Greece publishes nothing finer, so municipalities and districts share out their region's measured rate by how built-up they are and by documented local reporting — treat those two levels as an estimate, not a count of reported crime.
A district on the eastern slope opposite the Agios Andreas General Hospital of Patras, which is what defines it. It is a mixed residential quarter of apartment blocks and older houses, with the population you would expect next to a major hospital: residents, medical staff, families of patients, and the cafes, pharmacies and parking pressure that come with it. Nobody visits Drosia except for the hospital. It borders Tabahana, Pagona and Aroi. Against those it is busier and better lit because of the hospital traffic, and like them it appears in none of the 2024-2026 police patrol or burglary listings.
Busier than most residential districts through the night because of hospital traffic, ambulances and shift changes, which keeps the main approaches lit and populated. Side streets are quiet. Police figures record 9 theft incidents at hospitals across Patras in the first nine months of 2025.
Practical if you have hospital business, with rooms and short lets nearby, otherwise unremarkable. Not a base for an early Italy ferry — take a taxi across the city to the South Port.
Streets and squares: Agios Andreas General Hospital of Patras